History YMMV / PiratesOfTheCaribbeanDeadMansChest

** Jack nibbles on a severed toe out of boredom and curiosity when he's held captive by the Pelogostos. In 2015, Johnny Deppy visited a children's hospital in character as Jack Sparrow, where a girl noticed that Depp had his finger bandaged; Depp, still in character, joked that he ate his fingertip. It was later proven that his finger had actually been cut off, though opinions vary on whether by Depp himself during a drunken bender, or by his then wife in an act of domestic abuse.

* CompleteMonster: [[AristocratsAreEvil Lord Cutler Beckett]], also in [[Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanAtWorldsEnd the next film]], is the [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Chairman of the East India Trading Company]]. Upon his arrival at Port Royale, Beckett assumes illegal control and has the governor's messenger to the king murdered. Beckett later enslaves Davy Jones, forcing him to kill his pet Kraken and making Jones his personal attack dog of the seas. Governor Swann himself is later murdered when Beckett [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness decides he's of no further use]]. It is made abundantly clear that Beckett's prime motivation is power and control, and as piracy is a threat to that, Beckett [[NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist initiates a purge of anyone even vaguely associated with piracy]], with all legal proceedings suspended. The result is a massive line of people, many of whom aren't even pirates, taken to the gallows to be hanged. [[WouldHurtAChild Not even children are safe]], as a little boy is shown being hanged as Beckett looks on without remorse or emotion.

* MagnificentBitch: Tia Dalma, once known as [[PhysicalGod Calypso]], Goddess of the Sea [[GodInHumanForm bound in human form]] by the Brethren Court, eventually took up being a sea witch. Developing feelings for Davy Jones, Captain of the ''[[Characters/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanFlyingDutchman Flying Dutchman]]'', Calypso charged him with transporting the dead to the afterlife, but ended up neglecting their one night together, leading to Jones abandoning his duties and cursing himself and his crew. When Jack is targeted by Jones for his debt, Tia advises Jack in how to fend off and how to potentially control Jones with his heart. After Jack is trapped in Davy Jones' Locker and the East India Trading Company begin their genocide of pirates, Tia sees this as an opportunity to finally be unbound from human form by uniting the Brethren Court once more. Resurrecting Barbossa to serve as a guide, they succeed in bringing Jack back to the living world. Intending to turn on the pirates and [[PlayingBothSides seducing Jones once more]], Tia learns of Jones' betrayal, enraging her so much that shortly after she's released, she summons a giant maelstrom on both the ''Black Pearl'' and ''Flying Dutchman'', only relenting once Jones finally meets his demise.

** Davy Jones gets soooooo many moments that stand out. He kills dozens of innocent people in attempting to track down Will and Jack, the innocent foreigners who merely chance upon Jack's hat and the trading crew with the stern captain for starters. Then there is also him ordering the defiant crewman who spurned his offer of crewmanship killed immediately and, in a rage, having the survivors of the aforementioned trading ship slaughtered wholesale without even offering them the chance to take his wretched bargain by saying that there were no survivors. Some fans also believe that he really crossed it when he keeps William Turner prisoner, sets him to be brutally tortured by his own father and then threatens to kill him to spite Bootstrap.

* BaseBreakingCharacter: The Pelegostos Tribe. Some like their culture and find it a really fun part of the movie, while others think they take too much time of the main plot and are at the end superfluous to the main plot and wish their part was shorter (20 minutes to be exact) and too goofy to be taken seriously, and some like the Pelegostos but feel like they belong to a completely different movie.

* AuthorsSavingThrow: One of the few complaints people had about the first movie is that Jack Sparrow's "broken" compass just happens to be the only thing that can lead you to Isla de Muerta without any proper explanation as to why. This movie gives a proper answer: it's a magical compass that points to the thing the user wants most in the world and he got it from a mysterious Voodoo woman named Tia Dalma years before the movies. Reportedly, the filmmakers had intended for the compass to be able to specifically lead to Isla de Muerta when making the first film, but the line establishing this was cut from the film, so when the sequel came around, they were able to retcon it to fit the story.

* SignatureScene:
** The shot where Jack is ChasedByAngryNatives on the Cannibal Island.
** The Kraken sinking the ''Edinburgh Trader'' and eating its crew.
** The Liar's Dice scene.
** The three-way sword fight that ends up incorporating a waterwheel.
** [[spoiler: Jack Sparrow's DyingMomentOfAwesome.]] "Hello Beastie."
** [[spoiler: Barbossa's back!]]

* SugarWiki/DevelopmentHeaven: You know that scene where the Kraken chops a ship in freaking half? Yeah? They really did that. They got a huge slab of concrete, and painted it green, and then CHOPPED THE FREAKING SHIP IN HALF.

** Jack nibbles on a severed toe out of boredom and curiosity when he's held captive by the Pelogostos. In 2015, Johnny Deppy visited a children's hospital in character as Jack Sparrow, where a girl noticed that Depp had his finger bandaged; Depp, still in character, joked that he ate his fingertip. It was later proven that he had cut his own finger off on a drunken bender, then proceeded to lie and try to blame his ex-wife to try to dodge the consequences of his own abuse of her.

** Jack nibbles on a severed toe out of boredom and curiosity when he's held captive by the Pelogostos. In 2015, Johnny Deppy visited a children's hospital in character as Jack Sparrow, where a girl noticed that Depp had his finger bandaged; Depp, still in character, joked that he ate his fingertip. He later revealed that his abusive ex-wife Amber Heard threw a glass bottle at him, which shattered and a shard of broken glass [[{{Fingore}} severed his finger to the bone]].

* HarsherInHindsight: The wreck of the ''Edinburgh Trader'' at the hands of Davy Jones and the Kraken. Six years later, the HMS ''Bounty'', the ship that played ''Trader'', itself ended up in Davy Jones' locker after being wrecked during Hurricane Sandy, killing Captain Robin Walbridge and Claudene Christian.

* ContestedSequel: Several consider this film to be a major step down from the first film due to the switch from LowFantasy to HighFantasy, Jack taking Will's place as the Main Character, HappyEndingOverride and the fact few plot threads intorduced in this film get resolved. Others however consider it an EvenBetterSequel due to the expanse in action and drama, introduction to Davey Jones, Cutler Beckett, and the Kraken while expanding the series' mythology and providing natural character arcs to the cast. There's also a third group that finds the film weaker than the first but still a worthy follow up. Regatrdless of one's stance it's near unaminously agreed to better than the third film.

* BaseBreakingCharacter: The Pelegostos Tribe. Some like their culture and find it a really fun part of the movie, while others think they take too much time of the main plot and are at the end superflous to the main plot and wish their part was shorter (20 minutes to be exact) and too goofy to be taken seriously, and some like the Pelegostos but feel like they belong to a completly different movie.

* BaseBreakingCharacter: The Pelegostos Tribe. Some like their culture and find it a really fun part of the movie, while others think they take too much time of the main plot and are at the end superflous to the main plot and wish their part was shorter (20 minutes to be exact) and too goofy to be taken seriously, some like the Pelegostos but feel like they belong to a completly different movie.

* {{Sequelitis}}: It earned a lot of money and awards (being the only film of 2006 to gross $1 billion worldwide), but both critics and fans found it lacking compared to the original, ostensibly despite the producers's efforts. x

* ContestedSequel: Widely agreed to be not as good as the first film for reasons stated under {{Sequelitis}}. At the same time though, it does have fans who say it's still a solid action film and decent follow-up. At the very least, most everyone agrees that this is the strongest sequel in the series.

* {{Sequelitis}}: It earned a lot of money and awards (being the only film of 2006 to gross $1 billion worldwide), but both critics and fans found it lacking compared to the original, ostensibly despite the producers's efforts. The humour in the first film was quite clever and low-key, mostly due to Creator/JohnnyDepp improvising most of his stuff, so this film tried to write ''for'' the Jack that Depp had created, which had the consequence of making its tone DenserAndWackier. Likewise, the first film was more LowFantasy with {{Ghost Pirate}}s as the antagonists, while one marked a switch to HighFantasy with the introduction of the [[KrakenAndLeviathan Kraken]], the ''FlyingDutchman'' and the East India Trading Company's plot to take over the seas.

** Bill Nighy’s eyes merging with the CGI face utterly seamlessly.

* Creator/PenelopeCruz ''learned Italian'' for her role in ''Non ti muovere''. Even more shockingly, she actually managed to make herself unattractive with a false nose and teeth.

* ContestedSequel: Widely agreed to be worse than the first film for reasons stated under {{Sequelitis}}. At the same time though, it does have fans who say it's still a solid action film and decent follow up. At the very least, most everyone agrees that this is the strongest sequel in the series.

** Beckett had Will, Elisabeth and Norrington sentenced to death merely for playing a role in Jack's escape, in order to blackmail Turner into getting him the compass showing that he was ready to use and dispose of anyone who had anything that he wanted, pirate or not.

* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter: Annamaria does not appear in this, implying that she left the crew at some point (or else was among those killed on the island). This is apparently due to Creator/ZoeSaldana having such a horrible time filming the first film that she declined the offer to return.

* MemeticMutation: The new Seattle Kraken NHL team uses the Kraken's theme from this movie as the team's intro music.

* AuthorsSavingThrow : One of the few complaints people had about the first movie, is that Jack Sparrow's "broken" compass just happens to be the only thing that can lead you to Isla de Muerta without any proper explanation as to why. This movie gives a proper answer; it's a magical compass that points to the thing the user wants most in the world and he got it from a mysterious Voodoo woman named Tia Dalma years before the movies. Reportedly, the filmmakers had intended for the compass to be able to specifically lead to Isla de Muerta when making the first film, but the line establishing this was cut from the film, so when the sequel came around, they were able to retcon it to fit the story.

* WhatAnIdiot: Davy Jones can only be killed by stabbing his disembodied heart, which resides in the Dead Man's Chest.\\
'''You'd Expect''': Jones hides the chest at the bottom of the ocean where only he can get to it.\\
'''Instead''': He hides it on an island that he can't even set foot on, but the film's protagonists can get to with little trouble.\\
'''The Result''': [[spoiler: Norrington gets ahold of the Dead Man's Chest and delivers it to Cutler Beckett.]]\\
'''FridgeBrilliance''':[[spoiler: In ''At World's End'' we find out the woman he loved is a sea goddess, who stood him-up, and whom he subsequently betrayed, to get revenge for it. The sea is the ''last'' place he'd want to hide his heart at, because it was a personification of the sea who wounded it in the first place.]]

* NoSuchThingAsBadPublicity: The Pelegostos being portrayed as cannibals caused a publicity stir back in 2006 and led to some considerable attempts to boycott the film, but that did not stop the film from being a critical and box office success.

* AuthorsSavingThrow : One of the few complaints people had about the first movie, is that Jack Sparrow's "broken" compass just happens to be the only thing that can lead you to Isla de Muerta without any proper explanation as to why. This movie gives a proper answer; it's a magical compass that points to the thing the user wants most in the world and he got it from a mysterious Voodoo woman named Tia Dalma years before the movies.

* BaseBreakingCharacter: The Pelegostos Tribe. Some like their culture and find it a really fun part of the movie, while others think they take too much time of the main plot and are at the end superflous to the main plot and wish their part was shorter (20 minutes to be exact) and too goofy to be taked seriously, some like the Pelegostos but feel like they belong to a completly different movie.